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  • 30000 Canadians are homeless every night

    A homeless man keeps warm in his blankets in a park in downtown Toronto. On any given day, about 30,000 Canadians are homeless, a new report says. (Kevin Frayer/Canadian ...

  • Wearing a mask at a riot becomes a crime today

    A bill that would ban the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence is scheduled to become law today. Bill C-309, a private member's bill introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the Senate on May 23 and is expected to be proclaimed law during a royal assent ...

  • Mask ban bill expected to become law today

    A bill that would ban the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence is scheduled to become law today. Bill C-309, a private member's bill introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the Senate on May 23 and is expected to be proclaimed law during a royal assent ...

  • Canadian border agents being impersonated in phone scam

    The CBSA said in a media release that the unit is not designed nor is it mandated to make phone calls requesting personal information or payments over the ...

  • B.C. teacher duct-taped students mouths

    The B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch has reprimanded a Vancouver teacher after she duct-taped her students' mouths in an effort to keep them quiet. Margo Fowler, a math teacher at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, is rated as a top-notch educator on the popular website RateMyTeachers.com, where students describe her as "helpful," "entertaining" and "Just. ...


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Movie Review

Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit

In Seabiscuit, writer/director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) doesnt want to just tell the story of one of the most famous racehorses of all time. Rather, he wants to turn that racehorse into a metaphor for the American spirit itself, which is his films greatest strength and its most crippling weakness. Ross sincerity is clear in every frame of Seabiscuit, yet he never manages to ... ...

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  • Alice Munro wins Ontarios Trillium Book Award

    . The winners of Ontario's foremost prize for literary excellence, were announced Tuesday evening in Toronto. The Trillium Book Award English-language and French-language winners receive $20,000. The winners of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in English-language and the Trillium Book Award for Children's Literature in French-language each receive $10,000. "The works of ...

  • Botched surgery fuelled attack at Vancouver 7-11 Judge

    A hostage-taking at a 7-11 in downtown Vancouver in November 2012 was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, B.C. Provincial Court heard Tuesday. (QMI Agency files) VANCOUVER -- A hostage-taking at a downtown Vancouver 7-11 last year, in which a woman was nearly set on fire, was motivated by a call for justice after surgery was performed on the wrong leg, ...

  • Half of First Nations children live in poverty

    First Nations Idle No More protesters hold hands and dance in a circle during a demonstration at the Douglas-Peace Arch crossing on the Canada-U.S. border near Surrey, B.C., on Jan. 5, 2013. Aboriginal peoples are a growing percentage of Canada's population, but the poverty rate for children is being called 'staggering.' (Darryl Dyck/Canadian ...

  • Donors get Bobo Darling back on their feet

    The BC SPCA's Vancouver branch is publicly thanking local animal lovers who donated a total of $16,730 to help Bobo, a toy poodle that needed expensive surgery to save his ...

  • This day in history June 19 1938

    It's the first carbon fibre-bodied convertible in Aston Martin's history and, like the coupe on which it is based, the Vanquish Volante is the ...

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